Women celebrating women: Who inspires you?

Who inspires you? Who do you want to applaud? This International Women’s Day we’re bringing the women behind the industry to the front and giving the women making social intelligence happen in their organisations a chance to applaud other exceptional women.

Madeline Pietrek, Global Project Manager, Linkfluence

'I want to applaud Margherita Zama for doing an amazing job leading Linkfluence's Custom Success Team. She is gritty and hard-working and doesn't shy away from saying "no". She keeps things running!'

Angela Berger, Director, Insights & Analytics, Walmart

'Two forces to be reckoned with; Karen Vega-Porcelli, Marketing & Culture Strategist at Viacom CBS, and Cronja Hultin, Managing Director of intelligence firm Whispr Group.' 

Erin Salisbury, Director, FleishmanHillard TRUE Global Intelligence

'I wouldn't be where I am today without my first social analytics colleague and confidant Bailey Roy, who is now VP, Head of Analytics at CGI Health in Boston. We came up through the ranks of agency life together, collaborating, innovating, teaching each other, and helping to find solutions to client problems. She is strategic, results-focused, cool under pressure, positive, and an all-around great leader who I very much admire!'

Priscila Silva, Coding Manager, Listen and Learn Research

'Kat Gordon, the founder of the 3percentmovement. She saw a problem in the industry and did something about it. So inspiring.'

Paola Barahona, Social Media Analyst, Social Business Intelligence, United States Postal Service

'I applaud my Supervisor and Femtor Mary Beth Levin, who recognized my strengths and accomplishments as unique assets for Social Business Intelligence at the United States Postal Service.' 

Paz Segura, Marketing Manager, Marketing Manager

'I'm proud of and thankful to all the women that are (or have been) in my team, the women managers I had in the past showing me that there's space for us and all the partners I've found during the journey supporting each other to produce amazing projects. I think we are doing great things in the industry and the best is yet to come.'

Beverley Forrester, Associate Director, Social Media Solutions, Novartis

'Huge accolades for Dr. Jillian Ney! Her leadership within social intelligence will reverberate for years to come. She is a true pioneer in this space, having brought together a global community of social intelligence practitioners and having worked to truly distinguish social intelligence as a discipline.'  We’re sponsoring a new scholarship place for women on The Social Intelligence Growth Certification. If you know a woman who is excelling in this field and deserves a place, nominate here. We’ve also committed to making a bigger push to collaborate with more women, but we need your help. We want to keep this conversation going through our panels, interviews, and posts. If you work in social intelligence and you want to know how you can do something towards IWD – nominate yourself or a woman to speak on the SILab platform here.